Meghan McCain, blogger and daughter of former presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, threatened to quit Twitter this week and then apologized to her nearly 60,000 followers on the social media site after posting a racy picture of herself in a tank top Wednesday night.

Describing it as a snapshot of her “spontaneous” night in, the photo showed a scantily covered McCain holding an Andy Warhol biography in her hand.

Apparently responding to criticism, McCain quickly followed up her picture with a longer explanation.

“So I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing but apparently anything other than a pantsuit I am a slut,” she wrote, later adding “I can’t even tell you how hurt I am.”

Soon after, she considered closing her Twitter account altogether.

“Why I have been considering deleting my twitter account, what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment,” she wrote. Later, she escalated her threat.

“Ok I am getting the f*** off twitter, promise not to delete my account until I sleep on it, thank you for the nice words supporters,” McCain tweeted.

Finally, she apologized to her followers — “I have clearly made a huge mistake and am sorry 2 those that are offended” — but not without one last plug for her new column that launched today.

The trolls that the picture brought out on Twitter, not to mention thebloggers using the opportunity to unload vicious and mean attacks, aren’t all that surprising to be honest. The photos is, after all, a little provocative, though there’s certainly nothing wrong with it and, to be honest there are some on the right, such as the blogger linked above, who simply hate Meghan McCain because who her father is.

Hating on attractive women is the most annoying Internet Male trend ever. Anyone not doing hardcore porn is automatically an attention whore or a slut or– worse ever– “really not that hot. Actually, I find her kind of ugly.”

Meanwhile, as far as I’m concerned (and not to diminish her intellect in anyway) but good gods is she cute. She wasn’t even on my radar before. But holy hell! Wow!